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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OXB_wade-walton_Clarksdale-MS.html
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One of Clarksdale's most talented and renowned blues musicians, Wade Walton (1923-2000) chose to pursue a career as a barber rather than as a professional entertainer. Walton never lost his love for blues, however, and often performed for…
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The golden voice of Sam Cooke thrilled and enchanted millions of listeners on the hit recordings "You Send Me," "Shake," "A Change is Gonna Come," "Chain Gang," and many more. Cooke's captivating bl…
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Riley B. King, who was born in the Delta fifty miles west of here in 1925, spent many of his formative years in Kilmichael in the 1930s and '40s before achieving stardom as "B. B." King. His first mentor on the guitar was the Re…
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Roebuck "Pops" Staples, one of the foremost figures in American gospel music as a singer, guitarist, and patriarch of the Staple Singers family group, was born on a farm near Winona on December 28, 1914. Staples began playing bl…
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Morris "Magic Slim" Holt, who developed a raw, hard-hitting guitar style that made him a favorite on the international blues club and festival circuit from the late 1970s well into the twenty-first century, was born in Torrance on August …
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Grenada County-bred blues has long been an influential force in popular music. Musicians whose talents were nurtured in the Grenada area have included St. Louis bluesmen Walter Davis, a major blues recording artist of the 1930s, and Big G…
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Sonny Boy Williamson (c. 1912-1965), one of the premier artists in blues history, was born on a Glendora plantation under the name Alex Miller. A colorful character and charismatic performer, he was widely known as "Rice" Miller…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OW9_wrox-radio_Clarksdale-MS.html
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WROX, Clarksdale's first radio station, went on the air on June 5, 1944, from studios at 321 Delta Avenue. From 1945 until 1955 the station was headquartered here at 257 Delta. Legendary disc jockey Early "Soul Man" Wright becam…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OW8_w-c-handy-encounters-the-blues_Tutwiler-MS.html
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Bandleader W. C. Handy was waiting for a train here at the Tutwiler railway station circa 1903 when he heard a man playing slide guitar with a knife and singing "Goin' where the Southern cross' the Dog." Handy later published an…
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One of the major factors behind the "great migration" of African Americans from the South to northern cities was the mechanization of agriculture, which diminished the need for manual laborers. In 1944 the Hopson Planting Compan…